开
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to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #68 U+5F00
How 开 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 開; hands 廾 lifting the latch 一 of a door
How to remember it
open · Heisig RSH #613
二 two — as a component also called: two hands
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 开 as their sound component
These characters all use 开 (kāi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开 sound component | kāi | to open; to start, to initiate, to begin |
| 研 | yán | to grind, to rub; to study, to research |
| 趼 | jiǎn | blister, callus |
| 笄 | jī | hairpin; fifteen-year-old girl |
| 邢 | xíng | a state in Hebei province; surname |
| 汧 | qiān | marsh; to float; the name of a river in Shangdong |
| 岍 | qiān | the name of a mountain |
| 锎 | kāi | caesium |
Words containing 开
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大开 | dà kāi | to open wide |
| 白开水 | bái kāi shuǐ | plain boiled water |
| 开化县 | Kāi huà Xiàn | Kaihua, a county in Quzhou City 衢州市[Qu2 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang |
| 开山 | kāi shān | to cut into a mountain (to open a mine); to open a monastery |
| 大开大合 | dà kāi dà hé | (idiom) epic in scope; wide-ranging |
| 开国 | kāi guó | to found a state; to open a closed country |
| 开水 | kāi shuǐ | boiled water; boiling water |
| 开市 | kāi shì | (of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading; to make the first transaction of the d… |
| 开头 | kāi tóu | beginning; to start |
| 开学 | kāi xué | (of a student) to start school; (of a semester) to begin; (old) to found a school; the sta… |
| 开发区 | kāi fā qū | development zone |
| 开心 | kāi xīn | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb |
| 开花儿 | kāi huā r | erhua variant of 開花|开花[kai1 hua1] |
| 南开大学 | Nán kāi Dà xué | Nankai University (Tianjin) |
| 开地 | kāi dì | to clear land (for cultivation); to open up land |
| 开口子 | kāi kǒu zi | a dike breaks; fig. to provide facilities (for evil deeds); to open the floodgates |
| 开小会 | kāi xiǎo huì | to whisper and chat (instead of listening during a meeting or lecture) |
| 开平区 | Kāi píng Qū | Kaiping, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 开平市 | Kāi píng Shì | Kaiping, a county-level city in Jiangmen City 江門市|江门市[Jiang1 men2 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 小开 | xiǎo kāi | (dialect) boss's son; rich man's son; young master |